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tokens for custom fields - values intead of labels
July 02, 2009, 02:21:12 pm
As per

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Mail-merge+Tokens+for+Contact+Data

i've successfully added a token to my civimail footer that converts to a custom field. In this case, the field is a select, and what I really want is for the token to convert into the value rather than the label, but it's converting to the label.

Is there an alternative syntax to get this? Could there be?

If not, can you tell me where the code for this is and I'll be happy to write a little patch, for say {contact.custom_value_1}.

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Re: tokens for custom fields - values intead of labels
July 02, 2009, 09:06:13 pm

curious as to why you need the value? whats the use case?

no syntax for this as yet. I suspect, a good version might be: {contact.custom_1_value}. you probably can do this using token hooks and not have to hack the code: http://civicrm.org/node/480

I took a look at the code, and i suspect the hook is the cleanest place to do so :)

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Re: tokens for custom fields - values intead of labels
July 03, 2009, 12:38:07 am
Hi,

I had needs like that in the templates, for instance on the country, displaying  "and you can find others in your country /civicrm/profile/view?force=1&country-primary={country_id}, or employer id ... probably the same for custom fields)

(the url is probably 100% wrong, but you get the idea)

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Re: tokens for custom fields - values intead of labels
July 04, 2009, 06:05:19 am
okay, thanks, i'll check out token hooks.

my use case: i'm setting up some groups that correspond to events setup on a different system (haha, maybe next year we'll convert them to civievent), and i want civimail messages to have automated links to the corresponding pages on that system. So i set up custom values with keys of their ids, and values of the name of the group, and then generate smart groups based on those custom values.

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